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    Dingwall and FF still being King's dimwitted pawns.

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

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    ok sorry, you are all right; we are delighted with the boards performance

    At least have the decency to reply to the posts directed at you. They had no proof of this £16M and the majority of his "investors" were hidden, something the Boycotters have been complaining about with our current board. I really feel sorry for you that you let Mr Dingwall do your thinking for you, it's quite embarrassing actually. I actually saw someone on twitter a couple of weeks back asking Chris Graham if he was allowed to go to a Rangers match. Pathetic...

    Nicky Main

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

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    NICKY MAIN shares his arduous journey back to the football pitch after a brain tumour forced him to quit Rangers and retire from football age just 19.

    NICKY MAIN will pull on his boots today, slip on his shinguards and listen to the dressing-room banter that is music to his ears.

    It’ll be another step on an inspirational three-year journey that has taken him from the brink of stardom at Rangers to battling a brain tumour and a survival story he describes as a fairytale.

    The former Scotland Under-17 international was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in 2011.

    The 21-year-old has spoken of the love of his family and the support of the wider football community that ensures he wakens each day with a smile.

    After battling against the odds, the former Murray Park kid has made a comeback with Highland League side Lossiemouth.

    And he admits he’s more than happy just to be alive to tell his tale.

    He said: “I was in my second season as a full-time player at Rangers and I was hindered by a bad back.

    “It turned out to be a stress fracture but my contract ended and I was released – but things didn’t feel right.

    “After I was let go from Murray Park I went to St Johnstone but suffered a rapid decline in my health.

    “My body weight decreased alarmingly, it dropped week on week.

    “I started to feel less and less energetic and became lethargic. It came to the point I had to completely stop what I loved doing.

    “I went to the hospital for checks and they thought I had glandular fever but I knew it was a lot worse.

    “I had no energy. I would try and play with my pals at five-a-sides on Monday nights and felt terrible.

    “My weight had dropped so much I was so skinny that I looked like a rake.

    “All of the muscles had gone and I had no strength.

    “I found myself doing things like parking my car in Tesco and coming back having forgotten what I was in there for and even forgetting where I had parked my car.

    “There were loads of signs, not just the memory loss I was experiencing.

    “The doctors continued to think it was glandular fever but I had a bout of that when I was at Rangers and knew it was something else.

    “I was sleeping all the time and the headaches were so severe it’s hard to describe – it was murder.

    “Eventually I went to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.

    “When they gave me a head scan they found a tumour the size of a kiwi fruit in the pituitary part of my brain.”

    Nicky needed 26 doses of radiotherapy to blitz the tumour as well as an

    operation that required surgeons to drill into his skull to relieve the fluid that had built up in his brain.

    But the midfielder who started his career as a 13-year-old with the Light Blues recalls the moment he was taken aside by the specialists and told the extent of his illness.

    He was determined to win his fight and said: “The doctors were telling me what was wrong but I couldn’t really listen to them.

    “They told me I had a brain tumour. My first words to them was that they needed to get it out.

    “I’ve always been someone with a fighting spirit when I’m hit with adversity and it was more painful to watch what my family were going through.

    “I always believed I would beat the condition but I was more concerned at the impact on my family.

    “It’s a strange feeling ... even though I was the one with the tumour, there was a sense of guilt that I was transferring the pain on to my family.

    “But I’m a fighter and beat it in the end along with the help of my family.

    “It was a long, long road before I was eventually given the all-clear.”

    The Main family name is well known in Scottish football with Nicky’s dad Alan having starred for the likes of Dundee United and St Johnstone as a goalkeeper during a more than decent career.

    Nicky admits the support of his nearest and dearest proved to be the best medicine is his recovery battle.

    He said: “I had my operation just before Christmas 2010. Mum Ann-Marie and dad Alan and my brothers Christopher and Josh were at hospital with me.

    “My dad basically camped in my room for weeks after the operation and I was back and forward to hospital for weeks.

    “The radiotherapy shrunk the tumour and then killed it off.

    “My family were amazing. My illness affected them much more than it did me, they’ve been unbelievably supportive.”

    Lossiemouth may be a long way from the days he was playing for Scotland in the Victory Shield alongside the likes of Celtic’s Callum McGregor and Dylan McGeough and Fulham’s Jack Grimmer and he admits he wonders what might have been.

    He said: “When I look back at my time at Rangers I know now that my body wasn’t as strong as it was meant to be as the tumour was always present.

    “I’m surprised I achieved what I did with the tumour in my head.

    “I’d like to have seen what I could have achieved without it.

    “I was told by doctors it had been in my head from a very young age. It grew and grew but it’s crazy to think I was training with it every single day.

    “There’s no doubt it affected me both physically and mentally. The tumour ended my career at the top level.”

    As Nicky looks back at his battle to regain to health there are no hints of regret at an illness that cost him a career at Rangers. And he only sees his experience as being a huge positive for giving him a new perspective on the bigger picture.

    He said: “These are twists of fate, my outlook has completely changed. I’m thankful for my life every single day.

    “I hear people complaining about work or something. I’m just pleased to be able to go to work. Football is now back in my life and my outlook is 10 times more positive than it was. I now look at life as a blessing.

    “I’m out on loan from Lossiemouth to Lossiemouth United who play in the junior league.

    “I haven’t played for two years and hopefully can get back to a level which is a decent enough standard – but who knows if I can get myself super-fit?

    “For me, it’s all about the enjoyment of kicking a ball again. It’s about coming home and seeing all the scratches and bruises on my legs.

    “The first time I played again was two months ago. It was an incredible feeling to hear the music being played in the dressing-room, pulling on my boots and shinguards and just being part of it.

    “That’s all I’ve wanted to do.

    “This is a happy ending. I look back at the photographs of where I have come from to now and it’s been a fairytale story. One lesson I have learned is to wake up every day with a smile on my face.

    “I am two years’ all clear and it’s just great to be able to play football again. That’s all I’ve wanted to do since I was a young boy.”

    Stokes investigation

    in General Football & Sport

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    The amount of deflection from the Tonev Racism case and Stokes Elvis case is ridiculous. What ever happened to James Forrest and his flashing? A guy with his hand up(=nazi salute), this tweet and the ridiculous picture of someone in front of a Lanarkshire Loyal flag in a KKK costume has covered all that up just nicely.

    Hag

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

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    Ignore her mate , she portrays the very traits she accuses others of.

    To be honest , she bores the arse off me.

    Literally just told her that on twitter. Will no doubt be blocked for pointing out the major flaw in all her arguments. Every cloud... :)

    Wallace and MacLeod for the off ?

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

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    Aside from Graham Wallace and Nash to a lesser extent NONE of the other chosen few are acceptable faces on any board, football or otherwise

    As for Lee Wallace, no he doesn't want to go. There's been a few attempts to ease him out the door since January. We Spoke with him and his partner recently and he is perfectly happy at rangers despite being hawked around by the club

    He has several outside interests in the local community and wouldn't give them up easy, let alone Brighton.

    But, as we seen with previous players like Hutton, if a club wants you gone, then 9/10 the player goes

    Could you take me through who are "unacceptable" and why please.

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